CMPS 208Computing for Business

Introduces Excel as a computer tool to plan, create, and use spreadsheets to formulate and solve business problems. It exposes students to a wide coverage of spreadsheet topics from introductory concepts such as problem formulation, writing formulas and functions, charting, grouping, and error prevention to more powerful and advanced features such as pivot tables, and analysis needed in decision-making. In addition, it boosts students’ ability to collect, analyze, and forecast business and financial data to generate valuable insights. The course offers students an opportunity to apply skills in a laboratory environment in which they can experiment using Excel business problems designed for some selected topics. It provides the tools to perform modeling, calculations, analysis of various phenomena encountered in other courses such as finance, operations management, human resources, etc. No credit is given to computer science majors. Students can get credit for only one of CMPS 206, CMPS 208, or CMPS 209.